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a figure of speech in which one thing is said and another is to be understood; alternatively, one thing is said, but circumstances show that the opposite is the case (called situational irony), e.g. saying It is a good thing we came early when the cinema is almost empty.
a new word, often invented to explain a new technology, e.g. They say that shale gas will be...
the names of terms we use to talk about language, e.g. phrase, verb, figure of speech.
in language: a form of the verb, which can be reflected in one of three ways. See imperative...
a syllable that ends in a consonant, e.g. cap, sit, men.
See newspaper article.